Northeast Indian
Pork Sinki (Sikkimese Fermented Radish Pork Stew)
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Pork Sinki (Sikkimese Fermented Radish Pork Stew) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the sinki in warm water for 30 minutes to soften and rinse away some of its sharp, sour smell, then drain and chop coarsely.
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Heat the mustard oil in a pot and fry the sliced onion, ginger, garlic and dried red chilies for 5 minutes until fragrant.
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Add the pork and sear over high heat 8 minutes, turning the pieces, until browned.
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Add the chopped tomato and cook 4 minutes until it softens.
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Add the sinki, water and salt, and bring to a boil.
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Cover and simmer 35 minutes, or pressure cook 18 minutes, until the pork is tender and the stew has taken on the sinki's distinctive tang, closer to a sour soup than a thick curry.
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Serve hot with plain rice.
Serve it with
A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pork Sinki (Sikkimese Fermented Radish Pork Stew), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Pork Sinki (Sikkimese Fermented Radish Pork Stew) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 370 kcal
- Protein
- 25 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 9 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pork Sinki (Sikkimese Fermented Radish Pork Stew) takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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